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The Fourten Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of The Fourten Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $777k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM | $1,067,000 |
| THE REASON FOUNDATION | $135,000 |
| GLENWOOD PARK TRUST | $100,000 |
| WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC | $100,000 |
| ADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION | $82,000 |
| PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER (PERC) | $60,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY | $50,000 |
| PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NORTH YELLOWSTONE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TOOTHPICK PROJECT | $50,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE FOREVER | $50,000 |
| INATURALIST | $25,000 |
| CLIFTON INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 19% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 64% of The Fourten Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against -40% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE REASON FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $355k · revenue +48%
- WSWAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue +5%
- AAADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION3× · 2023–2025 · $207k · revenue +103%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -40%- OMONE MONTANAone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -101%
- BRBLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -58%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
The glacier national park conservancy works to preserve and protect glacier national park for future generations.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
Sustainable conservation, inc works with the conservation fund, a nonprofit corporation, to create partnerships with the private, nonprofit, and public sectors to protect the outdoor heritage of the united states.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Affta Fisheries Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Yellowstone Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD PARK TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ONE MONTANA ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds AFFTA Fisheries Fund ↗
- Who funds THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds INATURALIST ↗
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Bill of Rights Institute ↗
- Who funds BRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · George L Ohrstrom Foundation · Wise Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Fourten Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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